Clark Comment / FlyORH Response

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Oh yea. Bad day at ORH? Try in the US? 9866 delays. 2058 cancellations. NYC airports shut down, all kinds of diversions. So, here are the facts. JetBlue tried their hardest to keep FLL live because BOS, PVD, NYC……EVERY FLIGHT was sold out. If the JFK flights were still here, they would be no help. Because 1. They were scheduled leave ORH before FLL even arrived. 2. They would have either cancelled or even grossly delayed too because NYC was pummeled with weather. 3 all the flights from JFK to FLA were sold out too.

There was no protection for passengers because of the heavy loads and cancellations at all the other airports. So, the best alternative for ANY airline at ANY airport is to keep it live and find a crew. They had the plane. That resolved half the the challenge. But since the entire system was screwed, all attempts for a crew fell apart. At least they tried.

Days like this will happen in the airline world. So, don’t make this an ORH problem. Do some homework and learn more about airline management if you’re ever going to understand operating “plans”.

Response

3 noontime flights from FLL to BOS-PRO-ORH yesterday. BOS and PRO landed, admittedly 3 hours late. ORH was cancelled. Besides the JFK flight from FLL, you can drive to West Palm and fly to JFK. or another airline to JFK

Bottom line if you were flying yesterday JetBlue yesterday at noon from FLL to BOS/PRO, you got home yesterday. If you were flying to ORH, you did not and you have not other options now w/o the JetBlue JFK flight.

Not a good day for ORH yesterday with passengers waiting 11 hours in terminal., boarding plane twice only to be cancelled.